Shrink, heal thyself; how to get your Destined One to send you to the slammer

By
Chuck Shepherd

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Laurie Martinez, 36, was charged in December with filing a false police report in Sacramento, Calif., alleging that she was raped, beaten bloody and robbed in her home.

It turns out that she had become frustrated trying to get her husband to move them to a better neighborhood and that faking a rape was supposed to finally persuade him.

Instead, he filed for divorce. Martinez is employed by the state as a psychologist. [Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer-AP, 12-9-2011]

A balaclava-wearing man "kidnapped" Julian Buchwald and his girlfriend in 2008 in Australia's Alpine National Park as they were picnicking. The man separated the couple, tore their clothes off and buried them, but Buchwald escaped and rescued the girlfriend, and they wandered around naked for days before being rescued.

The balaclava-clad man, it turns out, was Buchwald, whose plan was to convince the woman by his heroism that she should marry him (and more immediately, to have sex even though they had both pledged to remain virgins until marriage).

Buchwald was convicted in Victoria County Court and sentenced in December to more than seven years in prison. [The Age (Melbourne), 12-20-2011]